BIM Beaver Changelog

What's new in BIM Beaver 2.5.1

Jan 9, 2024
  • Fixed many issues

New in BIM Beaver 2.5.0 (Oct 2, 2023)

  • In this update, the COM API has been integrated into the application, enabling users to interact with the application programmatically.

New in BIM Beaver 2.4.1 (May 29, 2023)

  • In this release, we have made some changes to the help file to make it even more helpful.

New in BIM Beaver 2.1.2 (Aug 1, 2022)

  • Fixed bugs.

New in BIM Beaver 2.1.1 (Aug 1, 2022)

  • Fixed bugs.

New in BIM Beaver 2.1.1 (Jul 3, 2022)

  • Add the Icon in the tree view representing the IfcPlate.
  • Add the Icon in the tree view representing the IfcMechanicalFastener.

New in BIM Beaver 2.0.4 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • You can change font in the tree view and property window and so on by the option dialog.
  • A couple of bugs were fixed.

New in BIM Beaver 2.0.3 (Nov 21, 2021)

  • The bottleneck of rendering was removed and rendering speed became approxmatly double than previous.
  • I put new tabs in the ribbon bar because there was no room to add new command buttons:
  • The Home Tab
  • The View Tab
  • The IFC Tab
  • The Option Tab

New in BIM Beaver 2.0.2 (Nov 14, 2021)

  • A bug was fixed in the application regarding to 3D view. Strictly speaking, The program had to release GDI objects at the end of rendering, but actually, the program hadn’t released the GDI objects. I embeded the bug becausse the program repeatedly has been refactored.(The GDI object is programing term. it’s represent rendering resouces.)

New in BIM Beaver 2.0.1 (Nov 6, 2021)

  • The application was rebuilded by Visual Studio 2022 RC version.

New in BIM Beaver 2.0.0 (Aug 9, 2021)

  • Undo/Redo command
  • Removed derived attributes from property window

New in BIM Beaver 1.9.8 (Apr 15, 2021)

  • The beaver implemented shade mode. You can choose three types of shade mode, solid, translucent, wireframe.

New in BIM Beaver 1.9.5-1 (May 24, 2020)

  • The bug fixed relating to IfcStyledItem:
  • There were cases in which the application couldn’t render walls with a specified color.
  • Added HyperLink command:
  • You can relate hyperlinks with structures by the command. Firstly select structures by clicking on the 3D view or selecting in the tree view. And then press the ‘HyperLink’ button on the ribbon bar. After displaying the HyperLink dialog, input hyperlinks in the dialog. You can specify multiple hyperlinks to the selected structure.
  • Press the ‘Open’ button after selecting one of the links in the list. the application will open the hyperlink.
  • Please use the ‘Search’ command if you want to confirm all hyperlinks in the IFC file.
  • You can search all hyperlinks in the IFC file by the Hyperlink tab.
  • Please just press the ‘OK’ button, then you can see a list of them.
  • The Beaver creates a property set to relate hyperlink with structural elements in the IFC file when you use the ‘HyperLink’ command.
  • The search command searches the property set.
  • Fixed to deal with ‘Select type’ in the property window:
  • You can change types of the ‘Select type’. Please press the option. And then you can see a ‘Change a select type’ dialog.
  • You can select a type by the combo box. If you select an entity type by the combo box, The ‘Create’ button and the ‘Select’ button become active. If you want to create a new instance, please press the ‘Create’ button. You will see ‘Add new instance’ dialog to select an entity type. If you want to select an existing instance in the file, press the ‘Select’ button. After displaying the ‘IFC explore’ dialog, please select an instance that you want.
  • The bug fixed relating to redraw:
  • The application had crashed when you change geometrical property in the property window relating to the boolean operation.

New in BIM Beaver 1.9.4-1 (May 20, 2020)

  • Fixed setup.exe to include a runtime-dll.

New in BIM Beaver 1.9.3 (Apr 21, 2020)

  • Fixed to change 3D graphics as you change geometric properties.

New in BIM Beaver 1.9.2 (Mar 4, 2020)

  • Added ‘Apply’ button at the bottom of the IFC explore dialog due to commit updating properties.

New in BIM Beaver 1.9.1 (Feb 27, 2020)

  • Fixed bugs.

New in BIM Beaver 1.8.0 (Feb 9, 2020)

  • The IfcExplore added.

New in BIM Beaver 1.7.0 (Feb 1, 2020)

  • In 1.7.0, the “Search Command” added.

New in BIM Beaver 1.6.1 (Aug 12, 2019)

  • Fixed to display IfcSpace in the 3D view as transparent boxes.

New in BIM Beaver 1.5.1 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • In 1.5.1 Add Colum, Slab, Wall, Beam, Footing and Rebar to the Quantity view. you can also export them as CSV file.

New in BIM Beaver 1.5.0 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • In 1.5.0 Add the quantity take off view and function for exporting quantities as CSV file. You can take off quantities of windows and doors by this function. and also you can export the quantities list as CSV file.

New in BIM Beaver 1.3.0 (Jun 10, 2019)

  • Save as Image file(*.png, *.gif, *.jpeg, *.bmp).
  • Export as FBX file.

New in BIM Beaver 1.2.0 (Jun 3, 2019)

  • Fixed to display IfcDerivedProfileDef.
  • Added Multi processors option. You can designate whether or not to use multi
  • processors.
  • Fixed to display reinforcing bar.

New in BIM Beaver 1.1.1 (May 27, 2019)

  • Fixed to control zoom camera more accurately.